#nothingnew — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nothingnew, aggregated by home.social.
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Treating everything as personal conflict is a dead end
Let’s focus on being honest, the most exhausting and destructive habit in activist and alternative tech spaces is the blinded reflex to turn disagreement into personal conflict. Someone challenges an idea, and it becomes an attack, names a pattern of behaviour, and suddenly it’s a vendetta. Someone points at structural problems and gets accused of targeting individuals. This is #stupidindividualism in its purest form, and it’s #nothingnew. It’s not only about difficult personalities […] -
Treating everything as personal conflict is a dead end
Let’s focus on being honest, the most exhausting and destructive habit in activist and alternative tech spaces is the blinded reflex to turn disagreement into personal conflict. Someone challenges an idea, and it becomes an attack, names a pattern of behaviour, and suddenly it’s a vendetta. Someone points at structural problems and gets accused of targeting individuals. This is #stupidindividualism in its purest form, and it’s #nothingnew. It’s not only about difficult personalities […] -
Treating everything as personal conflict is a dead end
Let’s focus on being honest, the most exhausting and destructive habit in activist and alternative tech spaces is the blinded reflex to turn disagreement into personal conflict. Someone challenges an idea, and it becomes an attack, names a pattern of behaviour, and suddenly it’s a vendetta. Someone points at structural problems and gets accused of targeting individuals. This is #stupidindividualism in its purest form, and it’s #nothingnew. It’s not only about difficult personalities […] -
Treating everything as personal conflict is a dead end
Let’s focus on being honest, the most exhausting and destructive habit in activist and alternative tech spaces is the blinded reflex to turn disagreement into personal conflict. Someone challenges an idea, and it becomes an attack, names a pattern of behaviour, and suddenly it’s a vendetta. Someone points at structural problems and gets accused of targeting individuals. This is #stupidindividualism in its purest form, and it’s #nothingnew. It’s not only about difficult personalities […] -
#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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#nothingnew is a way out of this trap – it’s deliberately challenging. Brains are for thinking, not food. History isn’t baggage; it’s a toolkit. Post-modernism is a dead philosophy that still rules the #mainstreaming https://hamishcampbell.com/post-modernism-is-a-dead-philosophy-that-still-rules-the-mainstreaming/
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The #dotcons, #mainstreaming, and Build to Walk Away
Three years ago I was trying to explain something simple in language liberals might actually hear. They talk about “platform capitalism.” Fine. But I’ve been calling it the #dotcons for 20 years - because that’s what it is - a con. The last 30 years of tech hasn’t just drifted into this mess. It’s been shaped, step by step, enclosure by enclosure, into systems designed to extract value from us. What we now call the internet is, in large part, a machine built to manipulate, […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-dotcons-mainstreaming-and-build-and-walk-away/
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Gates vs Bridges: the obscure politics of the #geekproblem
In the #geekproblem mindset, crossing a protocol flow is a gateway were in #openweb terms, it’s a bridge. That difference is not technical - it’s social - the difference between CONTROL and TRUST. A gate is something you lock, permission, authentication, enforcement were a bridge is something you cross, connection, flow, relationship. In the physical world, we don’t put gates on bridges as a default, but in software, we keep rebuilding them, and then wondering why things fragment. RSS […]https://hamishcampbell.com/gates-vs-bridges-the-obscure-politics-of-the-geekproblem/
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Let’s try and simplify the #OMN
The #OMN Framework: The Five Functions (#5F) The #OMN is simple flows, not platforms, it’s a way of thinking about media as flows of objects moving through a network. People shape the flow, you can find a more technical view to read after here. A human-scale, federated media infrastructure built on #FOSS practices and the #4opens: open data open source open process open standards It doesn’t start with features, apps, or ideology, it starts with flows. Imagine the network as: pipes […] -
A bit of #OMN history and where the current paths come from
For a long time the focus has been on solving two linked problems - both of which are actually #nothingnew. The first is grassroots publishing and organising. The second is network coordination between communities. Neither of these problems started with the internet, and they certainly didn’t start with Silicon Valley. Projects like #Indymedia and community organising networks solved these problems culturally long before modern platforms existed. They worked through shared practice, trust […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-bit-of-omn-history-and-where-the-current-paths-come-from/
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Most people sense that something is off
Meany people see the world degrading, enclosure accelerating. They see climate, politics, media all bending toward extraction. And even when they can see the trajectory, they feel powerless, so they cope by optimise their careers. They scroll. They argue. They consume. They retreat into irony. From birth, we’re trained into one core assumption: There Is No Alternative (#TINA). Not because it’s true, but because every dominant institution reinforces it: Schools train compliance. Media […]https://hamishcampbell.com/most-people-sense-that-something-is-off/
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An example of the mess from #deathcult centrism
Don’t worry too much, the corporate world has solutions, we look here at #ESG which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Its advocates say that if companies disclose enough data about their environmental and social behaviour, “good” corporate conduct will be rewarded by investors with higher share prices. Let's really look at #ESG, for what they are, #greenwash, a system of delay, distraction, and capture - on this #deatcult path this it is not a mistake, it is a function. […]https://hamishcampbell.com/an-example-of-the-mess-from-deathcult-centrism/
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Progressive Mainstreaming
Most progressive #mainstreaming isn’t about ending the #deathcult - it’s about making its worship feel more fair, more inclusive, more polite. There is some real everyday value in this. Fewer people get crushed immediately, some suffering is reduced, that matters. But let’s be honest about what it does not do, it does not get people off their knees to challenge the altar to stop the sacrifice. It rearranges the seating in the temple, feeding the deeper problem, obedience. Progressive […] -
#GoodMorningHorn and #HappyHappy #InternationalCelloDay...!
#DontPanic, #OrAnything; but...
#ExMastodonUser and #AppleFanBoy, #StephenFry has #Declared a #NationalEmergency for #MentalHealth...
#IT's #AnotherOne of his #LuvvieAlarms...
He's #VeryWelcome to #Borrow #MyDoctorate in #ClinicalPsychiatry and #Engineering and #WinAnOscar with #IT...
#OR, #SimplyReturn to #AnotherOne of the #RejectedSocialMediaPlatforms he's #AlreadyOn... #SuchAs #Fakebook or #SpaceKarenX's US$44bn #VanityProject, #Maybe...
There are #LoadsOfThem; they're #NothingNew...
#IT's just a #KindSuggestion...
#DontForget... #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool
Have #AnotherPrideMonth; #OrSomething...
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#StephenFry #LuvvieAlarm #BeautifulCreatures #TinyViolin #BigCello #SenseOfProportionControl
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#GoodMorningHorn and #HappyHappy #InternationalCelloDay...!
#DontPanic, #OrAnything; but...
#ExMastodonUser and #AppleFanBoy, #StephenFry has #Declared a #NationalEmergency for #MentalHealth...
#IT's #AnotherOne of his #LuvvieAlarms...
He's #VeryWelcome to #Borrow #MyDoctorate in #ClinicalPsychiatry and #Engineering and #WinAnOscar with #IT...
#OR, #SimplyReturn to #AnotherOne of the #RejectedSocialMediaPlatforms he's #AlreadyOn... #SuchAs #Fakebook or #SpaceKarenX's US$44bn #VanityProject, #Maybe...
There are #LoadsOfThem; they're #NothingNew...
#IT's just a #KindSuggestion...
#DontForget... #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool
Have #AnotherPrideMonth; #OrSomething...
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#StephenFry #LuvvieAlarm #BeautifulCreatures #TinyViolin #BigCello #SenseOfProportionControl
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#GoodMorningHorn and #HappyHappy #InternationalCelloDay...!
#DontPanic, #OrAnything; but...
#ExMastodonUser and #AppleFanBoy, #StephenFry has #Declared a #NationalEmergency for #MentalHealth...
#IT's #AnotherOne of his #LuvvieAlarms...
He's #VeryWelcome to #Borrow #MyDoctorate in #ClinicalPsychiatry and #Engineering and #WinAnOscar with #IT...
#OR, #SimplyReturn to #AnotherOne of the #RejectedSocialMediaPlatforms he's #AlreadyOn... #SuchAs #Fakebook or #SpaceKarenX's US$44bn #VanityProject, #Maybe...
There are #LoadsOfThem; they're #NothingNew...
#IT's just a #KindSuggestion...
#DontForget... #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool
Have #AnotherPrideMonth; #OrSomething...
🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚔️🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#StephenFry #LuvvieAlarm #BeautifulCreatures #TinyViolin #BigCello #SenseOfProportionControl
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#GoodMorningHorn and #HappyHappy #InternationalCelloDay...!
#DontPanic, #OrAnything; but...
#ExMastodonUser and #AppleFanBoy, #StephenFry has #Declared a #NationalEmergency for #MentalHealth...
#IT's #AnotherOne of his #LuvvieAlarms...
He's #VeryWelcome to #Borrow #MyDoctorate in #ClinicalPsychiatry and #Engineering and #WinAnOscar with #IT...
#OR, #SimplyReturn to #AnotherOne of the #RejectedSocialMediaPlatforms he's #AlreadyOn... #SuchAs #Fakebook or #SpaceKarenX's US$44bn #VanityProject, #Maybe...
There are #LoadsOfThem; they're #NothingNew...
#IT's just a #KindSuggestion...
#DontForget... #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool
Have #AnotherPrideMonth; #OrSomething...
🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚔️🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#StephenFry #LuvvieAlarm #BeautifulCreatures #TinyViolin #BigCello #SenseOfProportionControl
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#GoodMorningHorn and #HappyHappy #InternationalCelloDay...!
#DontPanic, #OrAnything; but...
#ExMastodonUser and #AppleFanBoy, #StephenFry has #Declared a #NationalEmergency for #MentalHealth...
#IT's #AnotherOne of his #LuvvieAlarms...
He's #VeryWelcome to #Borrow #MyDoctorate in #ClinicalPsychiatry and #Engineering and #WinAnOscar with #IT...
#OR, #SimplyReturn to #AnotherOne of the #RejectedSocialMediaPlatforms he's #AlreadyOn... #SuchAs #Fakebook or #SpaceKarenX's US$44bn #VanityProject, #Maybe...
There are #LoadsOfThem; they're #NothingNew...
#IT's just a #KindSuggestion...
#DontForget... #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool
Have #AnotherPrideMonth; #OrSomething...
🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚔️🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:
#StephenFry #LuvvieAlarm #BeautifulCreatures #TinyViolin #BigCello #SenseOfProportionControl
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Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p
Let's look at this. #ActivityPub is not a product. It’s not even really a “protocol” in the narrow, rigid sense that vertical tech likes to imagine. ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the #openweb. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use. This is why the #OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-the-omn-works-with-activitypub-and-why-we-need-a-bridge-to-p2p/
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At best, the old #mainstreaming is about equality in worshipping the #deathcult
The old #mainstreaming was only in a limited way about freedom, we now need to focus on what it was about, equality in obedience. Equality in our blinded worship of the #deathcult: growth, consumption, competition, endless mess on a dying planet. That’s why #fashernista liberal progressivism is always a dead end problem, it plays radical, says radical, but composts nothing. At best, it sells rebellion as a lifestyle. It’s equality inside the system, not about freedom from it. We’ve […] -
Change is Freedom, Change is Life
You don’t get transformative change by building according to the incentives of the dominant system. A post inspired by rereading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia as part of the Utopia Reading Group in #Oxford “There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Most people choose the easy path: they find […]https://hamishcampbell.com/change-is-freedom-change-is-life/
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We Made This Mess—Time to Clean It Up
For the last 20 years, most of our crew have played a part in shaping the digital world we see today. What began as a space of radical possibility has been enclosed, exploited, and transformed into a corporate-controlled dystopia of #dotcons. We lived inside this algorithmic trap, and in many ways, we still do—fighting, trolling, and feeding the very system that keeps us addicted.Trapped inside the algorithm, these platforms don’t exist to foster community or critical thought; they […]https://hamishcampbell.com/we-made-this-mess-time-to-clean-it-up/
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Most of our crew have made this mess for the last 20 years. Life inside the #dotcons algorithm is a trap—one that people fight for, troll for, and become addicted to. These platforms are designed to feed engagement through division, making people react emotionally rather than think critically.
#Failbook and the rise of victim culture isn't an accident. It's a feature, not a bug. The algorithm rewards outrage, amplifies conflict, and keeps people in a loop of reaction rather than action. People get stuck performing identities instead of building real alternatives.
The #OMN approach? Step outside the algorithm. Build trust-based networks where people interact as humans, not as data points for corporate profit. The #Fediverse and #ActivityPub-based platforms offer a path out, but we need to push harder to grow them in a way that challenges #mainstreaming liberal control.
We don’t need more “ethical” #dotcons. We need an independent, federated media ecosystem. That’s what the #OMN is about.